Defund the Police Algorithms

By Michelle Chen

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Clarence Okoh, a lawyer with the Center for Law and Social Policy, estimates that “virtually every single law enforcement agency in the country has some type of algorithmic-enabled technology.” Yet, from a civil rights standpoint, “there’s a major rights remedy gap, because the laws that were designed to protect us from discriminatory harms that flow from business and government practices were designed at the time where you had human decision makers.”

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